Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936, Blashfield, Evangeline Wilbour, d. 1918 · New York : Scribner's · leaf 138
f altar-pieces in the gallery,we can form a very clear idea of how the painterssupplied this want. The triptych was a favorite form, a Maestii, orMajesty (^. e. a Madonna and child sitting in statesurrounded by saints and angels) the most popularsubject. The Virgin, as befitted the sovereign… … SIENA look in vain for a Nativity, an Adoration of theShepherds, or of the Magi, subjects dear to theUmbrian and Florentine schools. To the Sienese the golden background wasalways inseparable from a devotional picture,wrote Eio in his Art Chretien adding, thismust not be attributed to the…
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